Poverty

II. BODY POVERTY DEFINEDhbernard Shhtaw, “peducation, housing and fair treatment under the law. We will examine the inequalities of treatment recorded to the poor in each of these areas, and the resulting degradation is the quality of their lives. The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way: “Povergrgfrbfr
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n addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a vdsvcdsour economy.
Whilevrdvny definitions, one thing is certain; poverty is a complex societal issue. No matter how poverty is defined, it can be agreed that it is an issue that requires everyone’s attention. It is important that all members of our society work together to provide the opportunities for all our members to reach their full potential. It helps all of us to help one another.

Joseph Julian, Social Problems: 3rd Edition (Prentice Hall, Inc. 1980), p.256. George Ritzer, Social Problems: Second Edition (Random House, Inc. 1986), p.341. http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/esic/overview/content/what_is_poverty.html CAUSES OF POVERTY
2. Cutback’s in health, education and other vital social services around the world resulted from structural adjustment policies prescribed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as conditions for loans and repayment. In addition, developing nation governments are required to open their economies to compete with each other and with more powerful and established industrialized nations. To attract investment, poor countries enter a spiraling race to the bottom to see who can provide lower standards, reduced wages and cheaper resources. Poverty Poverty has also various causes, while some of the causes of poverty can be removed by various measures, eliminating the most complicated underlying…...

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Poverty is a state of not accessing basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. Poverty is primarily caused by hunger, illness, and thirst and affects the entire society by generating many problems and making people to live substandard lives. It is normally classified in absolute and relative poverty. Absolute poverty refers to a state of not being able to obtain basic needs such as food, shelter and clothing that are very important in sustaining life. Relative poverty, on the other hand, is a state of not being able to obtain resources in relation to a certain mean resource and normally applies to people who are not able to meet societal social needs. According to Townsend (1979), a family is considered to be in relative poverty if it is not able to afford the required diet, get involved in societal activities, and use basic health and educational facilities. Problems connected to poverty bring political, economic, and social disorder in the society.
There are two theories that apply to poverty; conflict theory and structural theory. Conflict theory explains that poverty leads to class conflict in a society (Giddens & Simon, 2006). This comes as a result of the oppression of the poor by the rich. It says that conflict must remain in order to create a positive change in the society and that the wide gap between the rich and the poor is very significant. Structural......

...To start with, we need to know what poverty is. In all over the world many countries have this global problem. The fact is that poverty includes a lack of access to services like education, markets, health care, lack of ability to make a decision, and lack of communal facilities such as water, sanitation, roads, transportation etc. So lets take a look what kind of causes the poverty has.
First of all, it is overpopulation. High birth rates contribute to overpopulation in many developing countries. Overpopulation is defined as the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space. A high population density pressures the available resources in the country, as the resources can only support a certain number of people. For instance, usually in very poor countries the families have a lot of children because they need somebody to help them with keeping their agricultural. Here the problem is that the governments of developing countries often provide little, or even no support.
Second, lack of education. Illiteracy and lack of education are common in poor countries. Sometimes the governments can’t provide for good public schools, especially in rural areas. Sometimes just student doesn’t want to study because he doesn’t focus on his education. Their priorities just in finding a new girlfriend, spending more time with friends, smoking and so on. These kinds of students don’t think about their future.
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...How are different governments trying to
solve poverty compared to Hong Kong’s in the past 10 years?
What is poverty?
Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money. In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a day trip with their schoolmates or to a birthday party; not being able to pay for medications for an illness. These are all costs of being poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can’t consider these other expenses.
Global perspective
Many countries around the world have people living under the poverty line. But many countries in Africa are suffering major cases of poverty. There are other bigger countries that suffer major cases of poverty such as India and China. In this essay I will be focusing on how India, China and the United States of America try to solve poverty in their countries.
The United States of America has a population of 317,128,000,
which is the third biggest country in the world after China
and India. In 2008 35% if the American population lived in
poverty and now in 2013 around 15% live in poverty which a
huge improvement. Kiryas Joel, New York is a city in the
United States, which has the lowest GDP (Gross Domestic
Product), with a population over 10,000. The main reasons......

...Poverty: How the Economy Plays a Major Role
When you are driving around what do you notice? As you are driving to school or to the grocery store, do you notice the gentleman walking around with a container trying to collect some loose change? As your exiting the highway, do you notice the people on the side of the streets holding a piece of cardboard saying “Hungry. Needs money.” Of course we all notice that but do we do anything to help out? Most of us would immediately put our heads down and act like we don’t notice them or we continue driving like they don’t exist. Imagine if that were you on the side of the streets begging for at least some kind of loose change and no one would be of assistance. What would you do? Although I have not lived in poverty, I know several other people that do and I think that it is poignant that someone has to live a life like that. I am interested in writing about poverty because this situation has gone on for numerous years. There are countless people living in poverty today, affecting the young ones to live a good qualitylife and get a superior education. With the way how the economy is today, there are many citizens losing their homes, are unemployed and living on the streets or homeless shelter. They have no access to healthcare, food, clean water or even a shelter and I believe that it can all be solved in one way or another.
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...Poverty Reduction Strategy and Poverty Monitoring: Philippine Case Study By Celia M. Reyes and Lani E. Valencia* I. Introduction
The overarching goal of development efforts is the improvement in the quality of life of the people. The Philippines is no exception. Being one of the nations who participated in the Millenium Summit in September 2000, it has committed to achieve 48 targets including eradication of poverty. In addition to international commitments, the Philippines has been working toward poverty reduction for decades. It has even included targets on human development and poverty reduction in its medium-term development plans. The growing consensus is towards a comprehensive approach to poverty reduction. Rapid and sustained economic growth is needed to improve the quality of life of the population; at the same time targeted interventions aimed at reducing poverty are needed to reach the very poor and marginalized sectors of the economy. With poverty reduction as main goal of the government, the demand for poverty statistics has become more important. Several poverty monitoring systems are being conducted both at the national and community level providing income and non-income based measures of poverty. These have become the basis for social and economic development plans and programs of national and local governments. The objectives of this paper are to examine the poverty situation in the Philippines and to assess the country’s poverty reduction strategy and......

...The issue of poverty seems proves to be more of an issue for other emergent countries, but is just as much an issue for the United States of America. For Americans, the average person’s earnings are not enough income necessary to maintain a comfortable living. Most of us all know what it is to struggle; but for some the struggle worse. . America, a promising country said to be the land of “milk and honey’, and one of opportunity, but we can only estimate the number of our population that doesn’t know if they are going to make it from day to day. People living in this country are often misrepresented by the wealthy because the cameras are on the celebrities, athletes, and politicians. These people are not the image of every American. There are the reappearing infomercials showing starving children and people dying to bring awareness to the conditions of other countries, when more attention should be directed to our own communities. There are so many homeless, and even more hardly making ends meet.
Analyzing the causes of poverty in America really calls for you to look in to people’s lives. Majority of Americans are not born with money, and cannot depend on trust funds and inheritances. Many of us are us are living from check to check. The concept of saving today for tomorrow is almost impossible when you have to do so much with so little. Not everyone can take what they have and open up a business. Even so in this economy, we have seen businesses start and fail.
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When most people think of the United States they think, the land of the free and the place were dreams come true. Living in the US, there is no limit for advancement and opportunity. No man, woman or child should ever go hungry or want for anything. Here in the US we have more cars on the road and more skyscrapers in large cities than anywhere. In small towns, there are wheat fields and cornfields for miles and miles.
As an American living in the US, when we think of poverty we think of countries like India where women wash their clothes in ditches alongside main roads in Mumbai. In countries like Africa Ethiopian men, women and children may go days without a meal, sometime weeks. Examining third world countries and their poverty level, does it cross our minds that poverty really exist here in the United States?
Poverty levels in the US do not compare to the poverty level in third world countries. Poverty in a third world country is measured in the terms of absolute poverty, where a person lives in conditions he/she does not have the means to meet the basic needs in life. Their living conditions could be life threaten. Here in the US, poverty level is measured in the terms of relative poverty. According to the article reviewed by Thomas J. Corbett entitled “Poverty” (2008), “Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages....

...Poverty as a Global Issue
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The word poverty is familiar to every person living under the sun. Everyone understands the meaning. However, the specific meaning attached to that word is dependent on the concepts of poverty that are present in the mind. Poverty can be conceptualized in many distinct ways. Each way leads to a marked out understanding of the significance of the term. The simplest definition states that, poverty is a lack of the basic means of survival. Poor people are not able to put food on the table and they face death as a consequence. Many studies suggest that the definition of poverty as absolute lack is of relevance in regions where the income is low. In other regions, the living standards could be higher. Such countries experience apparent reductions and rapid growth. The definition of poverty in such regions is subject to change.
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POVERTY IN AMERICA
Donice Wright
Excelsior College
Business Ethics for Managers 523
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Dr. Sharlyn Moore
21 May 2015
Introduction and situational analysis
Residents of Lakewood, Ohio have seen an upsurge in people living below the poverty line. “Between 1998-99 and 2009-10, the share of Lakewood high students receiving free and reduced price lunches increased dramatically, from 9-46%.” (Shaw, 2013, p. 13). As globalization increases more immigrants and refugees are moving to areas outside of the inner city. Tukwila, Washington has seen much of the same waves of immigration and refugee populations seeking work and affordable housing. Poverty in Tukwila went from 10 percent to over 24 percent during the period 2006-10. Job opportunities are rooted in service jobs such as retail, hotels, construction and other services. P. (38). The inner city used to be the location for jobs and opportunity however, the trend now includes urban job opportunities, affordable housing, and better schools. This migration from the inner city to the outlying areas is called, “the suburbanization of poverty.” P. (38)
Understanding poverty calls for understanding the economy. According to Brooking Institute researchers Emily Monea and Isabel Sawhill, “even if the national unemployment rate fell to 5 percent within the next five years, by 2020 the nation’s poverty rate will likely remain above 14 percent. P. (39) Inter-generational poverty needs to be addressed. Inner cities have......

...Poverty is a state that affects many people around the world in both small and large nations. It is an extremely serious and prevalent issue that most nations are trying to control and take care of. The term poverty is generally used from a sociological point of view and is defined as “the state of being poor; want of the necessities of life” according to The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1995). It describes the lack of money, services, goods and materialistic possessions in groups or individuals. There are two critical types of poverty that affect a number of people living in all nations: relative poverty and absolute poverty.
Relative poverty, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Sociology (1994) refers to “an individual’s or a group’s lack of resources when compared with that of other members of society - in other words, their relative standard of living”. It is the state where a person meets the minimum level of living standards and cannot enjoy what is deemed to be the normal standard of living in a society. Persons suffering in relative poverty are usually excluded from economic, social, cultural activities that are the norm for other people in their society and thus suffer from some form of isolation. Such activities include: sending children to school trips, dining out at restaurants, travelling, and buying birthday presents for friends and family. Relative poverty usually varies from society to society as, the standard of living that is enjoyed by most people from......

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Poverty in the United States
Arkansas is the second among states with the highest poverty rates, at 17.3 percent. The patterns of poverty in Arkansas have established and varied over time in relation to the physical characteristics of the state and to changes in economic and political behavior. Poverty is the high and low in different Arkansas counties. The counties with the highest poverty rates, in Arkansas, are Lee, Phillips, Lincoln, and Desha. The counties with the lowest poverty rates, in Arkansas, are Saline, Benton, Grant, and Lonoke. Only these four counties had poverty rates lower than the national average. Saline, Grant, and Lonoke counties benefit from their proximity to Little Rock (Maher, Daniel).
In 2008 in Arkansas, most whites were in poverty. Within the population of those in poverty, whites made up most of the percentage in poverty. However, blacks came close with whites for being in poverty. Then, Latinos came last for being in poverty. Whites have obviously made up most of those in poverty (Maher, Daniel).
Women and Children have made up a part of those in poverty in Arkansas. The gap of income variances between women and men means women are in more poverty then men are. In Arkansas, almost 19 percent of women are living in poverty, whereas only 14 percent of men are living in it. Children in Arkansas living in poverty under the age of 18 is almost 25 percent (Maher, Daniel).
Arkansas, in poverty, is a......

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NAME: Richmond Sagoe
TOPIC: Eliminating poverty in rural areas in Ghana
THESIS STATEMENT: Rural poverty as an economic woe; eliminating poverty through agriculture and natural resource management, women empowerment, rural infrastructure and education.
In Ghana, poverty is primarily rural, with the northern regions recording the highest incidence of poverty in the country (GSS, 2007). Low agriculture productivity, undeveloped markets and lack of gainful wage employment opportunities as well as restrictive access of the less endowed to productive resources have been identified as the major causes of poverty. Governmental policies hardly favour rural areas, leading to rural-urban migration. The number of job opportunities in these poor remote areas is limited and therefore, standard of living in rural areas is generally low. Farming activities which is taunted as the backbone of the economy is left to the old-aged to pursue since the youth sees farming as an activity for people who ‘have nothing to do’. Rural poverty as an economic woe; eliminating poverty through agriculture and natural resource management, women empowerment, rural infrastructure and education.
According to the FAO (2015), the severity of the natural resource constraints facing the rural poor in Ghana requires that government focus a good number of projects on natural resource management. Many rural areas in Ghana have natural resources that are untapped. The majority of the rural poor are......

...War on Poverty Begun officially in 1964, the War on Poverty was an ambitious governmental effort to address the problem of persistent poverty in the United States. Over the next decade, the federal government—in conjunction with state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and grassroots groups—created a new institutional base for antipoverty and civil rights action and, in the process, highlighted growing racial and ideological tensions in American politics and society. Marked by moments of controversy and consensus, the War on Poverty defined a new era for American liberalism and added new layers to the American welfare state. Legislatively, the first two years were the most active. Between President Lyndon Johnson’s State of the Union address in 1964 and the liberal setbacks suffered in the congressional elections of 1966, the Johnson administration pushed through an unprecedented amount of antipoverty legislation. The Economic Opportunity Act (1964) provided the basis for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the Job Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Upward Bound, Head Start, Legal Services, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, the Community Action Program (CAP), the college Work-Study program, Neighborhood Development Centers, small business loan programs, rural programs, migrant worker programs, remedial education projects, local health care centers, and others. The antipoverty effort, however, did not stop there. It encompassed a range of Great......

...More than 20 percent of the world’s population lives in poverty. Poverty is a big problem in the whole world, because thousands of people die each year due to this big issue. This research paper will tell us what poverty is, its cause, effects, what people could do to help stop it. Poverty is an issue that needs to be address by everybody in the world because if no one tries to something about it is going to keep getting worst as time goes on. This research paper is to inform people about poverty, to make sure people understand what poverty is, what is doing to us, and most important to inform about what they could do to stop it. By informing people with all this information I would like to see them taking action towers this issue, it would be very helpful if people help does with need after reading this research paper. To help stop poverty we must help each other in any way we can. Many of you may ask what poverty really means. Well poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, healthcare, clothing, food, and a warm place to live. Poverty is a deadly issue that’s killing our population slowly. Poverty has been around for a long time now, it started when all rich people began to get richer, by rich people getting richer they were making other people poor, and let them to live without the humans needs. In my opinion all those people that are now living in poor conditions should not be living like this if......

...Is Poverty Really A Personal Issue?
Gabriela Rubio
Santa Ana College
October 1, 2015
Throughout history poverty does not cease to exist. It has been a problem and still is a problem as the years go by. When we come to think about those people in poverty it easy for us to blame the ones it for not wanting to change and better their lives. In my opinion it is more than just a personal problem; it is a societal conflict. As I stated poverty is a conflict and the role it plays in the book and modern society is as a form of slavery and injustice to people.
In the book Across the Wire by Luis Alberto Urrea, we get brought into the lives of people in Tijuana who live in these horrible conditions where there is really no way out. Just as conflict theorists would argue this is more than just a personal problem among this community. It is a societal problem where people are pretty much forced to live in these types of conditions with no way out. Just as how Mr. Urrea states these people live in dumps. They lack many basic resources. Their homes aren’t really homes. They are made out of scraps and sometimes even cardboard or aluminum. These are not healthy and sanitary for people to live in. Also, they don’t get the medical attention they need. Kids are running around with “scabies.” (Urrea, 1993). Even the basic need of going to the hospital to give labor is horrible. For example, the women would go to the “free clinics,” to give birth to their babies but instead of getting......